The New ZBB Quote Thread

[WeepingElf]

Meanwhile, I had a go at plotting my diphthongs (based on https://joeystanley.com/blog/geomtextpath/):

[bradrn]

Does a plot count as a quote now? (Honest question…)

[Raphael]

I am little help—my policy regarding Javascript is to not touch it and hope it goes away on its own.

[Raphael]

ObVent: The WaPo had an article today titled "The tech trends you'll have to live with in 2025" and if there's a better summation of the current state of public enthusiasm toward emerging technology, I haven't seen it. I remember being excited technological innovation. Now we're all like, "What is Silicon Valley going to try to cram down our throats this time?"

[bradrn]

Standard Rihall Kaafi:
[nɐβɐˈmæːɾɐ ɲeˈɸɑːrnɐkɐ fikr ˈʃæːβɐ ˈɲætːsem kɐˈɸiː]
/nɑbæmæːrɑ nifɑːrnɑkɑ fikr sæːbɑ nættim kɑfiː/
Nabemeera nifaarnaka fikr seeba nettim kafii.
na=be=meera ni=faar=na=ka fikr seeba nettim kafi-i
SUBJ.1.S=OBJ.3.S.M.INAN=believe.STAT COMP=drink.PFV=SUBJ.1.S=3.S.F.INAN much whole compound coffee-GEN

Central dialect:
[nɐbˈmæːɾɐ ɲeˈfɑːrnkɐ fikr ˈʃæːβɐ ˈɲætːsem kɐˈfiː]
/nɑbæmæːrɑ nifɑːrnɑkɑ fikr sæːbɑ nættim kɑfiː/
Nabemeera nifaarnaka fikr seeba nettim kafii.
na=be=meera ni=faar=na=ka fikr seeba nettim kafi-i
SUBJ.1.S=OBJ.3.S.M.INAN=believe.STAT COMP=drink.PFV=SUBJ.1.S=3.S.F.INAN much whole compound coffee-GEN

Western dialect:
[nɐβɐˈmæːɾɐ ɲiˈɸɑːrnɐkʰɐ fikʰr ˈʃæːβɐ ˈɲætːsʰim kʰɐˈɸiː]
/nɑbæmæːrɑ nifɑːrnɑkɑ fikr sæːbɑ nættim kɑfiː/
Nabemeera nifaarnaka fikr seeba nettim kafii.
na=be=meera ni=faar=na=ka fikr seeba nettim kafi-i
SUBJ.1.S=OBJ.3.S.M.INAN=believe.STAT COMP=drink.PFV=SUBJ.1.S=3.S.F.INAN much whole compound coffee-GEN

I think I drank too much caffeine.

[Lērisama]

But people just live with it, if you call that living.

Mainly quoted for the vast difference in interpretation with and without context.

[Man in Space]

In counties with /ɪə̯/, /ɛə̯/ is also often used by younger generations (i.e. people who are now 150 years old)

[bradrn]

Oh, goodie, it's time for me to make my biannual overlong post about the legacy media. (Which I suspect nobody wants, but neener neener, I'm going to do it anyway.)

[Raphael]

Neurons are interesting, because it’s been proven that a two-layer artificial neural network is enough to simulate any other non-linear function whatsoever. This is a qualitative difference from logic gates, which require considerably more complexity to do universal computation. The other big difference is that neurons (natural or artificial) support learning in a way that logic gates do not.

What exactly prevents us from building a data center with a fifteen billion artificial neuron network and thereby matching the computational power of the human brain?

Here are fifteen billion neurons. See if you can connect them all up correctly, without any mistakes.

[Raphael]

This is of course the linguistic equivalent of somebody who knows the words for "beer", and their complete entomologies, in several languages but doesn't know how to make a nice hot cup of tea.

(Quoting this here because the typo made me imagine drunk insects.)

[bradrn]

because it doesn't fit your gloom and doom and durm und strangle view, i'd wager.

[Raphael]

One of those ZBB quotes that are arguably better without context:

I had just shut the pi down. Sod's law strikes again!

[Raphael]

Not sure that I agree with this, but it's an interesting stance:

In the past, normal life was so boring that people saw religious worship as a form of entertainment. The availability of entertainment is the reason why irreligion is growing.

[Raphael]

/ˈju.kən.ˈsi.ət.ənˌðɪsˌɪɡˈzæm.pəl/
[ˈjy.kn̩.ˈtsiː.ɘʔ.ɘ̃ːn̪ˌn̪ɪ̈sˌɪ̈ːkˈsɛ̃̆ə̯̃̆m.pɯ]
You can see it in this example.

That's how I react when I see your comments about AusE phonology

[Raphael]

(For those not living in Wisconsin, I would forgive you if you had mistakenly thought that Elon Musk was running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.)

[bradrn]

We accept that someone can have agency without intelligence (consider Trump) […]

[Travis B.]

About accepting an offer of a PhD position in Glasgow:

(Climate is genuinely my biggest concern, since it’s the biggest unknown for me. A few nights ago I had a dream where I was walking through a city and it was -20 °C, and I think I ended up falling off a cliff into the sea and being frozen into an ice block…)

[Raphael]

Machines are superior over us humans in so many ways, and they haven't taken over the world

well, they have, but only in the same way as corn and chickens: using humans to spread everywhere and make them multiply across time and space.

[bradrn]

About accepting an offer of a PhD position in Glasgow:

(Climate is genuinely my biggest concern, since it’s the biggest unknown for me. A few nights ago I had a dream where I was walking through a city and it was -20 °C, and I think I ended up falling off a cliff into the sea and being frozen into an ice block…)

And alice’s response to me:

As long as you stay away from St. Andrews in the winter you should be able to avoid this.

[Man in Space]

Reading the SCK again, I note that zompist marks “I saw two men behind myself” with an asterisk. For me that’s valid—though admittedly I’d expect it to be said in a marked context, like someone reviewing CCTV footage of themselves during a period of amnesia.

It feels rather odd to me -- I'd normally say "I saw two men behind me" myself.